A Channel Through Every Life's Tunnel....... Be Informed! Be Reformed!! Be Transformed!!!.

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

On The Foreign News: "We Merely Apply the Rule of Law Against Narcotics Traffickers" Indonesian President Defends Execution of Foreigners; President Obama Fustrated Over Black Deaths and Rioters and Other News.

The Indonesians defended the execution of seven foreigners including
four African as a vital front of its "war" on drugs as testimony
emerged of how they went singing to their deaths.

Australia
withdrew its ambassador in protest at the midnight executions, but
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said he was merely applying "the rule
of law" against narcotics traffickers.

The seven convicts -- two
from Australia, one from Brazil and four from Africa -- were shot by
firing squad along with one Indonesian, despite strident foreign appeals
and pleas from family members.

There's speculation that three of
the Africans are from Nigeria but it is not clear whether the fourth
one is a Ghanaian or Nigerian nationality, here

It hurts that ours is base on speculation. And no concrete response from Nigeria Government and her people.

The Africans before execution

Wailing families"We Want to Get Out of Here, Death is Upon Us": Nepal citizens Cries Out

Four days after earthquake hit Nepal, part of India and China, death
toll has increased to over 5000. And the people of Nepal are in great
fear as the ground keeps shaking.
"Every time it feels like we will
be swallowed up, that we will die now. I want to get out of here says 24
years old Sita Guruung whose home has being destroyed.

Various
countries including UK has sent in aid after the Nepal Prime Minister
Shuhil Koirala made an appeal to the world at large.

The people of Ahamedaba and Kathmandu organizes prayers for all victims here.

Obama Criticizes Black Deaths at the Hand of Police and Rioters.

Urging Americans to "do some soul-searching," President Barack Obama
expressed deep frustration Tuesday over recurring black deaths at the
hands of police, rioters responding with senseless violence and a
society that will only "feign concern" without addressing the root
causes.

"This is not new. It's been going on for decades," Obama
said from the White House a day after rioting erupted 40 miles north in
Baltimore following the funeral for Freddie Gray, who died of a spinal
cord injury after being arrested.

Gray is the latest black man to
die at the hands of police, prompting protests and calls for criminal
justice reform. Some have criticized America's first black president for
not speaking out forcefully enough as he tries to avoid criticism of
law enforcement, and he responded by calling the deaths "a slow-rolling
crisis."

"We have seen too many instances of what appears to be
police officers interacting with individuals, primarily
African-American, often poor, in ways that raise troubling questions. It
comes up, it seems like, once a week now," Obama said. He said although
such cases aren't unprecedented, there's new awareness as a result of
cameras and social media. "We shouldn't pretend that it's new."

Still,
Obama showed no sympathy for rioters, saying those who stole from
businesses and burned buildings and cars should be treated as criminals.
Obama said they distracted from days of peaceful protests focused on
legitimate concerns "over the possibility that our laws were not applied
evenly in the case of Mr. Gray and that accountability needs to exist."

"There's
no excuse for the kind of violence that we saw yesterday," Obama said.
"It is counterproductive. When individuals get crowbars and start prying
open doors to loot, they're not protesting, they're not making a
statement, they're stealing."

But he also criticized a society
that doesn't do enough to uplift poor minority communities. He said the
solution to deep-seeded problems that spur violence include early
education, criminal justice reform and job training, while suggesting
that kind of a response is out of reach with a Republican Congress. "I'm
under no illusion that out of this Congress we're going to get massive
investments in urban communities," Obama said.

"It's too easy to
ignore those problems or to treat them just as a law-and-order issue as
opposed to a broader social issue," Obama said.

The president
spoke during a state visit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, at
one point apologizing to his guest for taking nearly 15 minutes of their
news conference to discuss it. "I felt pretty strongly about it," he
said.

The White House sought to show that it is keeping abreast
of the fluid situation, announcing that Attorney General Loretta Lynch
and Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett had held a conference call
Tuesday with more than 50 local leaders, including urban Mayors Michael
Nutter of Philadelphia, Tom Barrett of Milwaukee and Karen
Freeman-Wilson of Gary, Indiana.

Obama also taped an interview
Tuesday with "The Steve Harvey Morning Show," which targets primarily
African-American radio audiences. The White House said the interview
would air Wednesday morning.